Program for Young Thinkers Learning Festival 2020

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Matthias Kim

We would like to teach how to build your own corona virus in SNAP. It will move and talk to you! This will be more for 12-14 year old.

Room 5
YoungThinkers Workshop (for kids 12-18)

Jens Mönig, Jadga Hügle

Ever wanted to turn your own voice into a musical instrument? Ever wished for your sunset pics to be more awesome than your holidays? Ever wondered what  “Big Data” and “higher-order functions” are about? Join us for the bright side of computer science!

Room 2
YoungThinkers Workshop (for kids 12-18)

Andreas Huppert

Discover how to use Snap! by some simple games. With each game, you will also learn more about coding.

Check out the session teaser video

Room 3
YoungThinkers Workshop (for kids 12-18)

Akos Ledeczi, Brian Broll

In order to understand how COVID-19 is spreading across the world, several graphics and maps were used in the media. Join this session and learn how you can visualize pandemic data on top of an interactive map of the world yourself!

Room 4
YoungThinkers Workshop (for kids 12-18)

Wiebke Thumfart

This session is directed to everyone who wants to learn programming basics in a fun and creative way. You will be able to create your own art pieces and present them in an online exhibition afterwards.

Room 2
YoungThinkers Workshop (for kids 12-18)

Brian Harvey

Use the "Words and sentences" library to explore the structure of English text. Generate random sentences, spell plurals, make quiz programs.

Load this project: https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/snap.html#present:Username=bh&ProjectName=wordplay

Room 5
YoungThinkers Workshop (for kids 12-18)

Dan Seiler, Jule Zollondz

The pollution of the oceans is a global problem with ecological consequences for all of us. If we do nothing, many animals lack their livelihood and we lack the air to breathe. In our workshop, we want to solve this problem together with you in a playful way. With Snap!, you will become the saviors of a virtual ocean. Together we will analyze the code and the problem. Based on this analysis ...
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Room 1
YoungThinkers Workshop (for kids 12-18)

Dan Garcia

Join us to learn how to use Snap! to make beautiful pictures by setting actual pixels to fun values! We will show you a wonderful "BIG PIXELS" library that allows you to zoom in and out of your picture for debugging and for cool pixelation effects.

Room 4
YoungThinkers Workshop (for kids 12-18)

Jadga Hügle, Jens Mönig

Ever wanted to turn your own voice into a musical instrument? Ever wished for your sunset pics to be more awesome than your holidays? Ever wondered what  “Big Data” and “higher-order functions” are about? Join us for the bright side of computer science!

Room 2
YoungThinkers Workshop (for kids 12-18)

Bernat Romagosa

Have you ever wondered how chat applications work? Wonder no more, you'll be creating one yourself!

In this learning session we'll be making projects that can communicate with each other by means of an MQTT library for Snap!.

Room 5
YoungThinkers Workshop (for kids 12-18)

Akos Ledeczi, Brian Broll

In order to understand how COVID-19 is spreading across the world, several graphics and maps were used in the media. Join this session and learn how you can visualize pandemic data on top of an interactive map of the world with Snap! yourself!

Room 4
YoungThinkers Workshop (for kids 12-18)

Brian Harvey

Use the "Words and sentences" library to explore the structure of English text. Generate random sentences, spell plurals, make quiz programs.

Load this project: https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/snap.html#present:Username=bh&ProjectName=wordplay

Room 5
YoungThinkers Workshop (for kids 12-18)

Dan Seiler, Jule Zollondz

The pollution of the oceans is a global problem with ecological consequences for all of us. If we do nothing, many animals lack their livelihood and we lack the air to breathe. In our workshop, we want to solve this problem together with you in a playful way. With Snap!, you will become the saviors of a virtual ocean. Together we will analyze the code and the problem. Based on this analysis ...
view more

Room 1
YoungThinkers Workshop (for kids 12-18)

Dan Garcia

Join us to learn how to use Snap! to make beautiful pictures by setting actual pixels to fun values! We will show you a wonderful "BIG PIXELS" library that allows you to zoom in and out of your picture for debugging and for cool pixelation effects.

Room 4
YoungThinkers Workshop (for kids 12-18)
Unscheduled events

In a 30 minute kick-off session you will meet your peers and our team. We will give you all the information you need to enjoy the festival.

Kick Off